Quotes about Altruism
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
- Mother Teresa
Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.
- Luke 6:35
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
- GK Chesterton
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
- Mother Teresa
If you wished to be loved, love.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
Love, and you shall be loved
- Ralph Waldo Emerson